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adj
Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion; exciting pathos.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: pathetisad, pitiable, pitiful, wretched, compassionate, pathetic, piteous, pitisome, poor, rueful, ruthful, snivelly, sorry-ass
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Arousing scorn or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: disgraceful, shameful, dishonorable, abject, filthy, base, beggarly, blameworthy, carrion, cheap, choical, contemptible, cringing, damnable, dedecorous, degraded, deplorable, deridable, derisible, despicable, despisable, dirty, discreditable, disdainable, disreputable, execrable, groveling, hylic, hylical, ignoble, ignominious, inglorious, lame, laughable, loathsome, lousy, low, ludicrous, mean, mean-spirited, miserable, obscene, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, pissass, pitiable, pitiful, plebeian, punk, putrid, reprehensible, reprehensive, reptile, reptilian, reptitious, ridiculous, risible, roynish, scabbed, scald, scornworthy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shit, sleazy, slavish, slimy, sordid, sorry, trashy, ugly, uncommendable, uncool, unmentionable, unwashed, unsophisticated, unworthy, vile, vulgar, weak, worthless, wretched
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: mad, seething, agitated, angry, annoyed, apoplectic, bad-tempered, berserk, big mad, blood-boiling, boiling mad, butthurt, cheesed off, choleric, cranky, cross, enraged, fit to be tied, frustrated, fuming, furibund, furious, fury, glimflashy, grim, hopping mad, ill-natured, incensed, infuriated, irate, ireful, ired, irritated, little mad, livid, mad as a bear with a sore head, miffed, offended, pathetic, pissed off, p'd off, pissed, pissy, raging, ready to be tied, screwfaced, spitting chips, splenetic, sore, steaming, up on one's ear, upset, vexed, waxy, wode, wrathful, wroth, zowerswopped
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Trochlear.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
inspiring scornful pity- Dashiell Hammett
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: ridiculous, silly
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
inspiring mixed contempt and pity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: pitiable, pitiful
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
deserving or inciting pity- Galsworthy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle French pathétique, from Latin patheticus, from Ancient Greek παθητικός (pathētikós, “subject to feeling, capable of feeling, impassioned”), from παθητός (pathētós, “one who has suffered, subject to suffering”), from πάσχω (páskhō, “to suffer”). By surface analysis, path- + -etic.
Across languages
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